Torney'S Court Farmhouse

Torney's Court Farmhouse is a late 17th-century farmhouse, with later additions and alterations including 20th-century dormers. It is constructed of rubble, rendered to the front and right return, with stone dressings, and has a double Roman tiled roof with raised coped verges and gable stacks. The building has a symmetrical front and an L-shaped plan. It is two and a half storeys high, with five windows on the front. The ground floor has four cross windows with wide ovolo mullions and transoms, with four panes to the lower lights and two to the upper. A central 20th-century plank door has an overlight in a moulded stone surround. The first-floor windows are of two lights, with four panes each and wide ovolo mullions and moulded surrounds. There are three gabled dormers, and a single-storey lean-to to the left with a 20th-century window. The right return has two windows, matching the front at ground and first floor, with two smaller 2-light windows at attic level, all with the same mullions and surrounds. The left return has a two-light window at first floor, similar to the front, with 20th-century glazing, and two attic windows matching the right return. At the rear of the main house, a gable end has a two-light window at first floor, again similar to the front, with leaded lights remaining to the right. A single-storey lean-to features a 20th-century door, with an inner door in a chamfered stone surround. A rear wing is two storeys high and two windows wide. The left return has three dormers, while the right return has three windows, with a two-light and central three-light window on the first floor, similar to the front but with 20th-century glazing, and a blocked single light in the second bay from the right. The ground floor has two 19th-century casements and one single-light casement, and a door in the second bay from the right in a plain stone surround. The interior includes a through passage; the front left room features a large fireplace with a heavy timber lintel, a recess to the right, a deep chamfered beam, and windows with internal chamfering. The front right room has been divided, and includes a shell cornice and round-headed recesses to either side of a 20th-century fireplace. A winder stair is located at the rear of the passage, and the attic has been altered to provide living accommodation. A 19th-century five-bay roof, with one row of purlins, principal rafters, and collar, is partially visible, with bracing below the principal rafters. Torney's Court Farmhouse was one of three manors in the parish of Cold Ashton.